The wild center, a natural history center in new york state, will create a fellowship program to support recovery from the economic and social impacts of covid-19 and attract young people to…

The Wild Center, a natural history center located in Tupper Lake, New York, received a $151,747 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (NLG) program. The grant will support the creation of a fellowship program to attract young people to the rural Adirondack Park region and diversify The Wild Center's workforce as it expands its online educational offerings beyond the local area.

Through the fellowship program, The Wild Center will recruit, hire, and mentor a diverse cohort of fellows to prepare them to work in a science center or museum. Fellows will facilitate online programming at The Wild Center during their fellowship year to help rebuild the institution's capacity to serve digital pre-K through 12th-grade audiences and families, in addition to its approximately 100,000 annual on-site visitors. The program aims to support recovery from the economic and social impacts of COVID-19 in the underserved region.

The wild center, a natural history center in new york state, will create a fellowship program to support recovery from the economic and social impacts of covid-19 and attract young people to adirondack park, a rural, underserved region of the state. The fellowship program will diversify the center's workforce to better reflect changing demographics, especially as IT expands its online educational offerings beyond the region. The wild center will recruit, hire, and mentor a diverse cohort of fellows to prepare them to work in a science center or museum and teach them to facilitate online programming at the center during their fellowship year. This program will help rebuild the center's institutional capacity to serve digital pre-K through 12TH-grade audiences and families, in addition to its approximately 100,000 annual on-site visitors.